Cynthia Nixon

Born in New York City, NY on April 9, 1966, Cynthia Ellen Nixon was the daughter of radio journalist Walter Dixon and actress Anne Nixon, who inspired her child's interest in performing. Nixon made her television debut at 13 in a 1979 "ABC Afterschool Special" titled "The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid" (co-starring the legendary Butterfly McQueen) and earned her first film credit a year later as the aptly-named Sunshine in the Tatum O'Neal-Kristy McNichol teensploitation flick, "Little Darlings" (1980). That same year, she established herself as a theater actress to watch with her performance as the spoiled Dinah Lord in a revival of "The Philadelphia Story," which earned her a 1981 Theatre Wor... Continue Bio >>